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Kutools for Outlook Changelog

What's new in Kutools for Outlook 18.00

Mar 6, 2024
  • New Features:
  • AI Mail Assistant:
  • AI Mail Assistant utilizes the most advanced AI technology to assist you in replying to emails swiftly, precisely, and intelligently. Moreover, it optimizes email content, summarizes email messages, and translates them into various languages, allowing you to manage your emails more effortlessly and efficiently.
  • AI Reply to Emails:
  • Utilizes advanced AI technology to analyze and learn from previous messages and email interactions, ensuring accurate and contextually relevant automated responses.
  • AI Optimize Emails:
  • Based on your preferences, you can refine the selected portion of your email or enhance the entirety of your message, ensuring a more comprehensive and readable presentation of your email content.
  • AI Emails Summary:
  • AI Translate Emails:
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed an issue where the backspace key could not be used to delete text in the input box of the Advanced Search feature.

New in Kutools for Outlook 17.00 (Sep 13, 2023)

  • Fixed: Enabling Add date signature when creating new email option will be invalid when creating new emails.

New in Kutools for Outlook 16.00 (May 26, 2022)

  • Improvements:
  • Quick Report:
  • Add Quick Report Settings which supports customizing Email fields or task fields when creating a quick report.
  • Bulk Reply:
  • In Create & Manage Reply Templates window, the Reply button is replaced by the Ok button, the Close button is replaced by the Cancel button.
  • Remove Open reply template before sending and Reply All options in the Options dialog box, which pops up after clicking the Settings button in Create & Manage Reply Templates window.
  • Add the Reply All button in the template window.
  • Auto CC/BCC, Auto Forward, and Junk Emails
  • Add a checkbox for enabling all rules.
  • Support multi-select operation, hold the Shift or Ctrl key to batch copy or delete rules.
  • Add a right-click menu to copy or delete rules.
  • When creating or editing a rule, if the remark leaves empty, the remark in the rule list will show parts of information of the rule, but the remark is still empty in fact.
  • Schedule AutoSend, Auto Save/Auto Detach/Auto Compress attachments
  • Add a checkbox for enabling all rules.
  • Support multi-select operation, hold the Shift or Ctrl key to batch copy or delete rules.
  • Add a right-click menu to delete rules.
  • Add (Kutools) as a suffix to features of Kutools in the right-click menu.
  • Add to Group:
  • Change feature window name to Add Recipients and Senders to Contact Groups.
  • Change Recipients to People.
  • Language displaying adjustments.
  • Other minor improvements.
  • Fixed:
  • When applying Schedule Auto Send feature, the Kutools tab missing.
  • When applying Junk Email feature, the rule displays empty.
  • Other minor bugs.

New in Kutools for Outlook 13.00 (May 20, 2020)

  • New features:
  • Advanced Print:
  • Print an email without message header and username, but containing background. You can choose to only print the body of an email message without its header and username, and print the background image as well
  • Print selection:
  • With this function, you can choose to print only a part of the email or message.
  • Add to Groups:
  • With this function, you can quickly add all email addresses of senders or recipients of the selected emails into one / multiple contact groups.
  • Stripping (Contact Group):
  • This function is designed to move specified members from current contact group into new one to split the original contact group into two contact groups
  • Break Up (Contact Group):
  • This function will save each member of currently selected contact group as a separate contact, and then delete the original contact group.
  • Improvements:
  • Auto CC / BCC:
  • You can now add new CC / BCC recipients in the Auto CC / BCC function by adding a contact group
  • The latest version 7.00 adds the Portuguese language, and it’s not completely translated.
  • Fixed:
  • Enabling Add date signature when creating new email option will be invalid when creating new emails.

New in Kutools for Outlook 12.00 (Oct 10, 2019)

  • New Features:
  • Count Selected Items
  • Remind me when I send a message that’s missing attachments
  • Restore All Detached Attachments
  • Save All Attachments
  • Select the greetings
  • Only detach attachments with certain extensions
  • Attachment icon is still remained in the emails
  • Auto Detach Attachments
  • Advanced Search
  • Improvements:
  • Show hint dialog
  • AutoText
  • Fixed:
  • Fixed: Error message warning pops out when applying the Signature to Contact feature.
  • Other minor bugs.

New in Kutools for Outlook 11.00 (Jul 1, 2019)

  • Fixed: The compatibility problem caused by enabling the “Add greeting when reply” and “Add date signature when create new, reply and forward email” functions at the same time when applying the “Fixed Reply Formatting” feature.
  • Fixed: Cannot correctly classify inbox messages when merging inboxes.
  • Fixed: When zooming Windows, the interface of the Automatic group functions cannot display completely.
  • Fixed: The rules cannot edit in the Auto CC/BCC and the Auto Forward features.
  • Fixed: Fail to read folder data when statistics Outlook items.
  • Fixed: Error caused by instable network when analyzing message header.
  • Fixed: Error caused by deleting rules in the Auto CC/BCC Manager, Auto Forward Manager or the Junk Email Filter Manager.
  • Fixed: When auto forwarding an email to multiple recipients, the email will be sent to everyone once rather than in bulk.
  • Fixed: When creating an auto forward email rule to your own account, an email will always loop receive and forward when it arrives to your account.
  • Other minor bugs.

New in Kutools for Outlook 10.00 (Oct 30, 2018)

  • Fixed :
  • Fixed: Minor bugs.

New in Kutools for Outlook 9.50 (May 8, 2018)

  • New Features:
  • By sender:
  • With this utility, you can search for emails according to sender’s email address of selected email with just several clicks:
  • Search the Emails contain the sender;
  • Search the Emails from the sender;
  • Search the Emails sent to the sender.
  • Duplicate Contacts:
  • Support one-click or step-by-step operation;
  • If you have already configured options for merging or deleting duplicate contacts, the Delete/merge the duplicate contacts directly function helps you to execute with the last settings directly without reconfiguration
  • Decide the searching priority in folders;
  • You can move a Contacts folder up and down to change its searching priority among all selected folders
  • Support finding duplicate contacts in the same folder or across folders
  • Support to delete all duplicate contacts permanently, move all duplicate contacts except or include the first duplicate one to a specified Outlook folder as you need
  • List all contacts or only the duplicate contacts as you need in the result.
  • Duplicate Emails
  • Remove duplicate emails based on selected emails
  • Remove duplicates emails from selected folders;
  • Remove duplicates emails from the same folder or across folders;
  • Support removing duplicate emails by one-click or step-by-step.
  • Improvements:
  • Auto Text: Import the default Auto text entries during the installation.
  • Print Selection: Supports to print pictures.
  • Duplicate Contacts
  • This utility now supports backup or no backup all duplicates by users. And the backup name can be modified.
  • The result information of deleting or merging duplicate contacts can be displayed as Default, Custom, and Selected Fields as you need.
  • Recover the Warning when replying all option.
  • Recover the Include myself when replying all option.
  • Recover the Skip Auto CC/BCC option.
  • Fixed:
  • Bugs occur while applying Auto CC/BCC.
  • Inaccurate counting for total contacts, total duplicate contacts and successfully added contacts when adding contacts from multiple emails.
  • Some minor bugs.

New in Kutools for Outlook 9.00 (Dec 28, 2017)

  • New Features:
  • Attachment Manager – List and manage all attachments
  • List all attachments from all mail folders in all email accounts;
  • Quickly save, detach, delete or compress the selected attachments or all attachments;
  • Easily rename an attachment in the Attachment Manager;
  • Duplicate Contacts – easily merge or delete duplicate contacts
  • The powerful Duplicate Contacts feature is able to merge or delete all duplicate contacts based on specified contact fields from the selected contacts folders
  • Batch add contacts from multiple selected emails
  • The Add from Message feature can quickly export contacts from multiple selected emails and saved them into the specified contact folder in a batch job
  • Improvements:
  • Reply multiple messages:
  • Supports to create an HTML template to reply multiple selected emails;
  • Only several clicks to reply multiple selected emails with a customized template
  • Save as File:
  • Supports to save multiple selected emails as individual HTML / Txt / PDF / CSV / Word / Excel files in a batch job
  • Attachment Options:
  • Adds more options for saving, detaching, and compressing attachments in Outlook See screenshot:
  • Adds options to deal with duplicate attachments when saving, detaching, and compressing attachments;
  • Supports to deal with attachments only in filtered out folders;
  • Supports to save attachments into subfolders which named with specified folder structure;
  • Adds options to change attachment extension when compressing;
  • Supports to set exclusion criteria for attachments when compressing
  • Adjust feature layout on the Kutools tab, and improve some icons
  • Fixed:
  • Embedded images can’t be recognized correctly when saving / detaching / deleting attachments
  • Some minor bugs

New in Kutools for Outlook 8.10 (Nov 3, 2017)

  • New Feature:
  • Bookmark:
  • This Bookmark feature can help you easily insert and manage bookmarks when composing emails in Outlook.
  • Improvements:
  • Kutools Pane:
  • The Auto text Pane is renamed as Kutools Pane which includes AutoText and Bookmark features.
  • Functions of the AutoText feature are rearranged, and new function is added to support showing floating preview of any selected AutoText entry.
  • Fixed:
  • Some Minor bugs.

New in Kutools for Outlook 8.1.0.108 (Feb 12, 2017)

  • New features:
  • Signature to Contact
  • This feature will convert the signature in an email to a contact in Outlook.
  • Statistics
  • With this feature, you can quickly count the number of selected emails, number of received emails per hour/day/week/month, and number of emails in one/multiple/all folders in Outlook.
  • Show Number of Items
  • The All Folders Show Total Number of Items feature will show the total number of items in each folder on the Navigation Pane with one click. The All Folders Show Number of Unread Items feature will show the number of unread items in each folder on the Navigation Pane with one click.
  • Improvements:
  • Add greeting when reply
  • This feature now supports to add greeting in replying emails with recipients’ first name, last name, or full name.
  • Fixed:
  • The Advanced Print feature inserts the Bcc field at incorrect place when printing an email in Outlook 2013.
  • Auto Text pane cannot be closed with clicking Kutools > Pane in Outlook 365.
  • Error occurs when enabling both the Warning when reply all option and Include myself when reply all option.

New in Kutools for Outlook 7.0.0.99 (Jul 25, 2016)

  • NEW FEATURES:
  • Advanced Print:
  • Print an email without message header and username, but containing background. You can choose to only print the body of an email message without its header and username, and print the background image as well. See screenshot:
  • Print a list of all attendees of specific meeting. See screenshot:
  • Print selection:
  • With this function, you can choose to print only a part of the email or message.
  • Add to Groups:
  • With this function, you can quickly add all email addresses of senders or recipients of the selected emails into one / multiple contact groups. See screenshot:
  • Stripping:
  • This function is designed to move specified members from current contact group into new one to split the original contact group into two contact groups. See screenshot:
  • Break Up:
  • This function will save each member of currently selected contact group as a separate contact, and then delete the original contact group. See screenshot:
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  • IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Auto CC / BCC:
  • You can now add new CC / BCC recipients in the Auto CC / BCC function by adding a contact group.
  • The latest version 7.00 adds the Portuguese language, and it’s not completely translated.
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  • FIXED:
  • Fixed: Enabling Add date signature when creating new email option will be invalid when creating new emails.

New in Kutools for Outlook 3.0.0.69 (Apr 29, 2015)

  • New features:
  • Reply with Attach: Reply to the sender of this message with keeping all attachments of the message.
  • Reply All with Attach: Reply to the sender and all other recipient of this message with keeping all attachments of the message.
  • Compress All: To compress all attachments of this item or multiple items.
  • Uncompress All: To uncompress all attachments which have been compressed by Compress All feature.
  • Rename All: To rename all attachments of this message.
  • Detach All: Detach attachments from emails to a file folder, and maintain hyperlinks between the detached files and the email.
  • Recovery Detach: This feature can be used to update the hyperlinks between the detached files and email after you have moved the attachments folder to a new file location.
  • Options: Options for how do you want to handle the attachments.

New in Kutools for Outlook 2.00 (Apr 29, 2015)

  • New features:
  • Reply multiple mails: It allows you to replay multiple emails with the same content.
  • Tip: Please hold down Ctrl key to select multiple emails which you want to reply all at once.
  • AutoText Pane: When composing emails, you may find yourself typing certain phrases over and over. With this feature, you can quickly compose email without retyping certain phrases over and over again. You can just easily reuse the same content by clicking on it.
  • Kutools logs: It will record all logs of Kutools for Outlook. You can go to check the logs for detailed information about how the software has processed the operations for you.
  • Check Malicious: It will check all hyperlinks of your emails. If the email contains hyperlinks which are familiar as follows, it will be indicated as malicious email.
  • The display test contains extendoffice.com, but the hyperlink address just contains different domain address extendedoffice.com .
  • Show Hidden Links: It will display hyperlink address in your email.
  • Enhanced features:
  • Delete mails by sender: It will display all emails from the same sender of the selected email, and then you can decide how to delete those emails.
  • Tip: please select an email first, and then apply this feature to delete all emails of the selected email’s sender.
  • Delete mails by subject: It will display all emails with the same subject first, and then you can decide which email to delete.
  • Tip: please select an email first, and then apply this feature to delete all emails with same subject of selected email.
  • Delete duplicate mails: It will display all duplicate emails from the same email folder for you to delete.
  • Tip: Please click to open an email folder which you want to delete duplicate emails from first.
  • Delete duplicate contacts: It will display all duplicate contacts as follows.
  • Tip: Please first navigate to the Contact / People (Outlook 2013) folder.
  • Delete duplicate tasks: It will display all duplicate tasks first, and then you can decide which task you want to delete.
  • Tip: Please first navigate to the Tasks folder first.